History of psychiatry starter pack
Historians of psychiatry (broadly construed) & relevant museums & projects.
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@harbottlestores.bsky.social
@annafranjam.bsky.social
Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
@peterkravitz.bsky.social
Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief. Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing. (And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
@kentishscribbler.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and stuff. Writer. Curator. Socialist. Obsessive. Author of “Psyche on the Skin: A history of self-harm” (2016) and “Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people and why they don’t exist” (2022)
@christina-c20.bsky.social
Dr Christina Malathouni @LivUniArch, writing Public Mental Health Facilities in Postwar England (Routledge). @BartlettUCL Alumna. Former @c20society.bsky.social caseworker. Also @Christina_C20.
@manuelmerkofer.bsky.social
historian trying to grasp how we made sense of our minds and tried to cure them #histmed phd student in history of #neurosurgery @UniversitätZürich
@deyess.bsky.social
Doctorant en histoire de la psychiatrie à l'université Lyon II Lumière. En train de rédiger sa thèse. En dépression, comme la majorité des doctorant.e.s
@aschacht.bsky.social
Historian (East Central Europe, International History of Science & Medicine) at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. PhD from @dshcs.bsky.social and @recetvienna.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at, Managing Editor with @administory.bsky.social
@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴 1908-2016 Used as a military hospital during both World Wars. Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital. Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)
@lisamalich.bsky.social
Professor for the history of psychology, University of Lübeck, Germany, Research interests: history of knowledge, history of sex & gender, Psychological Humanities, hormones, psychotherapy
@hanblythe.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSHTM, affiliated at Birkbeck. Health humanities and history of mental health, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@davidfreis.bsky.social
Medical historian at the University of Augsburg | Writes about psychiatry, psychotherapy, hospital architecture, past futures of medicine #histmed #histsci #histtech #histSTM Private account
@queerstorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
@re-histories.bsky.social
Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
@drninastuder.bsky.social
Historian, IEH2, University of Geneva History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. Current: https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/ 🗃️🍸 Passionate about literature and theatre. She/her https://nina-studer.com
@katemcal993.bsky.social
Historian of Modern British Medicine and Psychiatry ■ Research Associate, University of Kent ■ https://research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-bedwetters/ she/her
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
@erikadyck.bsky.social
Historian of health & social justice. Mostly psychedelics, madness, eugenics and birth control; essentially I enjoy studying who gets to make the rules and why we let them.
@hanspols.bsky.social
Interested in community mental health all over the world, but in particular in Indonesia and Australia. Also chickens. History of medicine.
@lensmith.bsky.social
Historian of psychiatry / mental health / asylums in Britain and former British Caribbean colonies. Follower of West Bromwich Albion F.C.
@anaantic.bsky.social
Social and cultural historian of psychiatry/Centre for Culture and the Mind
@healthhistory.bsky.social
Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
@stevejtaylor.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, long suffering Spurs fan, occasional guitarist
@hhakosalo.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and health. Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Visiting Fellow (2023‐24) at the University of Cambridge
@emilyishness.bsky.social
Working towards fair access to work for people in their 50s and 60s @ Ageing Better. Ex-IfG, very ex-teacher. PhD Victorian dementia. Likes charts AND poems.
@majben.bsky.social
Historian at C2DH (University of Luxembourg) Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and the history of the financial place in Luxembourg
@beapichel.bsky.social
Historian of photography, medicine and emotions and PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5. She/her
@janehamlett.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
@alexandreklein.bsky.social
Philosophe et historien de la santé Responsable de : http://histoiresante.blogspot.com/ https://uottawa.academia.edu/AlexandreKlein
@jadevshepherd.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain (crime, psychiatry, family); former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Mental Health Humanities, Institute for Mental Health, UoBirmingham. Exec Committee @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian #HistPsych #HistMed #HistSTM #Cats
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) - Bradford lass -